You may recall Obama’s much publicized comments on small-town Americans while speaking to a group of wealthy California donors in San Francisco on April 6, 2008:

“…they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Well, as Mayhill Fowler wrote on huffingtonpost.com, “Obama made a problematic judgment call in trying to explain working class culture to a much wealthier audience.”

A problematic judgment call.  Hmm...  Doesn’t sound like someone who’s ready to lead the free world to me, seeing as how he can’t even relate to large segments of the very population he claims to want to unify. 

The media and right wing supporters alike had a bloody field day with the “guns or religion” part, but even Fowler makes no stink about the “antipathy to people who aren’t like them” statement, which--if we're all honest with ourselves--is simply a not-so-veiled way of calling small town Americans racists.

But wait! There’s more!

Equally disturbing were other parts of Barack Obama’s April 6th speech that never made waves on the national news circuit…  To wit:

“I think they’re misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to ‘white working-class don’t wanna work — don’t wanna vote for the black guy.’ That’s…there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today - kind of implies that it’s sort of a race thing.”

And, 26 minutes into that very same speech, Barack Obama says:

"When people tell me they've all stressed about racial discord, well, you know, try slavery for a while."

Excuse me?  Slavery?  Yes, I can agree that slavery sucks, but… What the…? How can one "try slavery" in this day and age in America?  Didn’t a Republican named Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery in America in 1862? Or was my history teacher smoking crack when he told me that? 

And, how is the long-dead issue of slavery in America relevant in the 2008 election, anyway? 

Oh, right… I forgot. To win this election, Barack Obama has to take every available opportunity to pull out that race card, which is just dripping with white guilt over an issue that’s well past its sell date--by over 140 years.